Anne Barker

Anne Barker is a senior reporter covering international issues for ABC TV, radio and online. In 2012 she finished a posting as the ABC's Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem, where she covered the Israel-Palestine conflict and the start of the Arab Spring. From 2006-2008 Anne covered events in East Timor from Darwin, where she was also the ABC's Northern Territory correspondent for AM, The World Today and PM. She won a Walkley award in 2007 for her coverage of Indigenous affairs, and has been a Walkley finalist five times. She has previously had assignments in Indonesia and Fiji. Anne also covered federal politics in Canberra for five years in the late 90s, and began her ABC career in Melbourne.

Wild conspiracy theories about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have now spread to the search ship tasked with finding it, with some speculating the vessel stopped at a shipwreck to retrieve a chest known to be on the sea floor.

Blaine Gibson, the self-styled wreck hunter searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, "firmly" believes the plane will be found — just as a new private search is about to begin in the southern Indian Ocean.

The rising price of eggs was the last straw for angry Iranians and has sparked the biggest protests in the country for nearly a decade. But the unrest is unlikely to lead to major changes, Anne Barker writes.

A draft policy before East Timor's Government would force unmarried women and girls to use only natural methods of contraception, but in a country where teenage pregnancy rates are already up, women's groups are alarmed at the potential impact if the policy is adopted.

Now Donald Trump has formally recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and Israel's alone, he will surely go down in history as the US president who damaged — if not destroyed — the chances of Middle East peace, writes Anne Barker.

Submarine crews by their nature are trained to evade detection, but that very skill may ultimately cost the lives of 44 crew on the Argentinian submarine San Juan which has vanished in the south Atlantic Ocean.